ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, NOV. 27, 2003 By Steve Newton Anders Osborne is not the type of singer-songwriter who’s easily categorized. The Sweden-raised, Louisiana-based bard is described in […]

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JUNE 7, 2011 L.A. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold, whose hits in the ’70s included “Lonely Boy” and “Thank You For Being a Friend”, died in […]

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JUNE 29, 2013 By Steve Newton Thirty years ago today—on Wednesday, June 29, 1983—Iron Maiden played Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum on a bill with Saxon (who had that […]